skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’re the one who made the contention that suburban/non-highway speeds are just fine, despite high levels of pedestrian/non-car injury/death, not me.

And yes, I can absolutely say speed limits are too high, even if people are exceeding them. People drive the speed they feel safe, not the speed we want. So, we should design the roads to ensure people drive the speeds we want.

IE, a wide open 4-lane road is going to see speeds above 40mph, even if it’s posted at 20mph. Because it looks/feels safe from within a car. Yet, we keep building wide open 4-lane roads and wondering why everybody speeds and people keep getting run over.
Parent is referring to the decade before that.
As someone else who is not an Altman fan and generally skeptical of people pushing weird AGI scenarios:

I do not think Gary Marcus has anything interesting to say about current AI, and by that, I mean anything that's not a cheap gotcha, restatement of an obvious fact, or something entirely disingenuous.
I'll also flag, and I've never flagged anything before.

Sam A's job is to sell Open AI. It's not not interesting that he talks about why is so great!
Yes never discuss technology critically, only grow and make more more more. Never consider the actual impact of your work, simply produce and consume.
It’s not worse at all. Actually probably the opposite, I learn some crazy stuff watching Al Jazeera and sometimes don’t believe it and go off researching it … and wow it’s very concerning. It seems almost certain to me there has to be some conspiracy amongst US publications to conceal certain information around Israeli-Palestinian conflict and history. As one example, read up on Ben Gvir, current National Security Minister … it’s totally crazy.
Yeah, I mean I work inside a Fortune 10 company and after countless man hours across multiple teams we have exactly zero LLM applications in production and the pipeline heading to production is empty.

I guess it’s good at generating plausible blog spam and helping children with homework. I’ve used it to bootstrap my own writing. It’s not entirely useless but hardly world changing.

I think the biggest commercial use right now is Klarna uses it for basic lvl 1 support? I don’t know the details but it sounds like a good result from RAG over a fairly constrained corpus. So, again, nice but completely unaligned with the massive valuations in that space right now.
I tend to agree, and you can kind of see the creep of “seriousness” increase over the years in popular media (characterized by dark/edgy/gritty/“realistic” tones), with the Nolan Batman films being something of an inflection point.

Compare the TV and movies from the past 15 or so years to that of the mid-late 90s and early 00s and there’s a stark contrast, with the older media having more of a tendency toward being colorful, optimistic, positive, fun, silly, campy, etc.
Both the Manhattan Project and the Apollo Program were 0.4% of GDP. With today's GDP of $27T, $108B would be equal — Meta have only spent less than a third of that on GPUs.
Nope, just their opinion
Yeah, it’s unfortunate that suck ruthless pricks have control over such a powerful and important technology.
> Players from countries that can't legally acquire a PSN account

Would easily win a lawsuit.

As a publisher, it is your job to check these things before you process payment, that why you have a department of lawyers and regional availability settings in Steam.

If their system of accounts, online systems and EULA's are mutually contradicting and incompatible mess, that's on them.

Once you have taken my money, it is now your job to provide the service.
> the entire point of Al Jazeera was for Qatar to provide political influence through media, not as an unbiased news agency.

This is the entire point of all mass media. There is no such thing as unbiased news.
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OpenAI also pioneered reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) to make LLMs output completions that are valuable/relevant.

I agree that OpenAI has provided no evidence they are anywhere close to AGI (and I don't think LLMs are sufficient) but also I think OpenAI should get a ton of credit for being the first party to make LLMs that actually useful.
to me this is like saying a casual conversation in the park is destruction of evidence just because you didn't record it
Wrong! RT is available in Ro.
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More than half
They’re not. I instantly see them for $50 on Amazon and $34.99 on eBay.
And if those calls weren't recorded, is that going to be destruction of evidence too? Where is the line drawn and who gets to say where?
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Impractical compared to what? The U.S. burns about 4 million barrels of gasoline and about the same amount of diesel per day, mostly just pushing ground vehicles around. That sort of works, but I wouldn't call it practical in the long run.

Converting to EVs is the obvious alternative, but batteries are expensive and we haven't scaled up battery manufacturing yet to the degree necessary to replace ICE vehicles. We can get more EVs on the road though if the average EV can get by with a much smaller battery.

On some level it's an optimization problem: using the U.S. as an example, there are about 280 million cars/trucks currently registered. Is it cheaper/better to build about 280 million EVs with about 60kwh of batteries each on average, or build 280 million EVs with about 30kwh of batteries each and electrify our major highways?

If batteries cost $100/kwh, then 280 million * $100 * 30 = 840 billion dollars. If electrifying the major highways can be done for under $840 billion dollars, then it makes sense to do.

The interstate highway system is about 50,000 miles.

Sweden spent about a million euros per kilometer to electrify a section of road using the slot-embedded-in-the-road system. That's about $1.7 million per mile, or $86.5 billion.

You'd probably need to do more than just the interstates, but then at the same time you don't need to electrify 100% of the length of those highways. Maybe just 10% or 20%, as long as electrified section come at regular intervals.

This is all kind of simplistic and hand-wavey, but it seems like it passes the threshold of "we should at least consider doing this."
what crap is that? Chat online is a simulation of chat in the real world. real world chat is not recorded.
These discussions always remind me of the old adage that capitalisation is important because it means the different between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse…
(1) Technically, I think that site works by identifying itself as the Google webcrawler and seeing the full-text version that many sites would like to have indexed.

(2) There's the question of why that site isn't taken down (or how it pays its bills) and my guess is this:

In the 2000s it was an open secret that you could read the news on most sites like The New York Times with the username and password "media/media" Paradoxically, journalists need paywall bypass to do their work, and it is completely unrealistic that the The New York Times is going to buy a subscription to each and every small town paper. Or that the small town papers are going to subscribe to the other small town papers.

For that matter, how is a high school comp teacher going to check the citations of what students write when they are grading from home?

How are we going to hold publications accountable for articles that they can pull down or revise?

That site addresses many serious needs that the world has and there seems to be some agreement that it just isn't talked about. Contrast its marketing to

https://12ft.io/

which makes big claims but has most popular news sites disabled on request.
This is less impressive than it sounds. Real (inflation adjusted) US GDP is almost nine times higher than it was in 1945.
> Compromising people is the core competency of intelligence, happens all the time, and most cases probably never come to public knowledge.

Yea. It would almost be strange if security service didnt consider the route of getting "kompromat" on a developer to make them "help" them.
Does anyone know what Sam’s great super power is besides acquiring power? He may as well be another less successful flavor of Elon Musk.
Isn’t there an argument we’re simply better at brain statistics and modeling than current AI? Forget architectural limitations. What is the nature of the extrapolation? How do individuals balance their experiences and determine likely outcomes?
What is the video referenced at the beginning of the article? The link seems to be broken for me.
Note: Am/was an amateur translator.

I dislike translation notes. Translations are already a form of notes, so appending notes to notes is just bad form.

Some translations can be so awkward or simply impossible that leaving a translation note becomes inevitable, but a good translator should not have to need them everywhere.
Wouldn't we all!
Vacation ruined, they apologized – with a heartfelt note written by ChatGPT
The cheapest flat currently for sale in Soho is listed at £525,000. If someone has been displaced to one of the most expensive neighbourhoods in Europe, I will play them a song on the world's tiniest violin.

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Either the media was in English or in Arabic. If it was English, then it was the same stuff being shown to everyone else in the west. If it was Arabic, then I don’t think Israelis would understand any of it.
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The laws being what they are in the UK I imagine 100% of the journalism is written in a passive voice. To do otherwise would risk a lawsuit.
Probably would be better to look at is as compared to federal government spending.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYONGDA188S
Sam Altman is the poster child of the silicon valley techbro (derogatory).

He and his orbiters have done real an irreparable harm to the Internet while profiting enormously from unlicensed copyrighted works (aka piracy).

"Open" "AI" is pure hypocrisy, an embodiment of the two parallel sets of rules: one for the commons and one for the elite.

Sama deserves more than a little pushback on and scrutiny of his claims.
I find that hilarious because I actually feel the opposite way.

We have ignored the impact of what we do far, far too long. Forums like this facilitate this false dichotomy. Society IS tech. To believe otherwise is stupid.

But I have found a mantra: if our conversation is in any way getting into whether somebody is good or bad? I am no longer a positive influence on society.

This failed my test. It has nothing to do with Sam Altman. If you want to talk about X person good or bad, go the hell else. I have actual work to do.
what do you believe? that a chip and 80GB of HBM memory (a H100) cost $40000 to develop and manufacture?

90% margin is likely the low end for Nvidia's AI offerings.
> Fast food is not great just because it's popular.

It's not good for you, as a consumer. As a company, it's a trillion dollar market, nurturing some of the largest companies in the world.
Curious fact. The shutting down of Al Jazeera gave at least one journalist the title of being part of media organizations banned by distinct apartheid regimes twice, first SA in 1988, and now Israel in 2024. Wonder it that qualifies for the Guinness Book. See:

https://twitter.com/TonyKaron/status/1787171262202019932

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Karon
If current society collapse sometimes I wonder how many centuries will be needed to recreate 3nm from scratch. Even 1000 years doesn't seem enough.
I have a feeling you’re both correct. Cars/trucks are absolutely more dangerous in a given interaction. But, the increased use of electric motorcycles/scooters on sidewalks is also leading to increased negative bike-pedestrian interactions.

US e-bike rules are a totally inconsistent dumpster fire. The “standard” 3 tier rating allows class 3 e-bikes to travel at unsafe for sidewalk/path speeds (28mph), while also being in contradiction to many state’s moped/motor-scooterlaws. Yes, a pedal bike can also go 28mph, but very few people can actually go that fast where an e-bike can easily do so.
Many using VPN. For example if you set the VPN servers to HK, RT will display as usual. In general I notice my peers will use anti-west countries based servers for censored western news and the reverse for anti-east. Some do use it so intuitively they might not realized RT or any Russian sites blocked. A lot of time I just assume it is due to network outages.
I find such laments annoying, because they're full of obvious platitudes. It's easy to sound smart quoting Einstein and Dijkstra. It's cheap to make generalizations, and point fingers at complex solutions when having both the benefit of hindsight, and ignorance about their true requirements.

"as simple as possible, but not simpler" is always right. Messy solution? You should have made it simpler. Primitive solution causing problems? You weren't supposed to make it too simple. Why didn't you think about making it just perfect?

In reality, it's very hard to even get people to agree what is simple, when solutions have various trade-offs. Maybe it is easier to focus on maintaining one complex database, than to have 3 "simple" ones, and triple admin work, and eventually end up having to sync them or implement distributed transactions.

Something simple to implement now may cause complex problems later. A simple off-the-shelf solution that doesn't fully solve the problem will breed complex workarounds for the unsupported cases, and eventually add complexity of migrating to something adequate. If you didn't correctly predict how a solution will fit all your requirements, you should have simply listened to Einstein.

All the advice to "just" do something "simple" is blissfully unaware that these solutions are not panacea, and it's rarely a plain choice between complex vs simple. Projects have constraints - they may need to work with existing messy systems, inconsistent legal requirements, or changing business requirements. They may prioritize time to market, or skills they can hire for. And there's brutal economics: maybe annual report export is a Rube-Goldberg machine, but it's done once a year, and a rewrite wouldn't pay for itself in 50 years.

The discussion about complexity rarely acknowledges that projects and their requirements grow, so something perfectly simple now may become complex later, in a perfectly rational way, not due to incompetence or malice. Storing data in a plain text file may be beautifully simple in the beginning, and become a bad NIH database later. But starting with a database for 3 rows of data would be overcomplicating things too. And there's cost to refactoring, so always using the ideal solution is not that simple either.
This is going to become a huge problem with state actors attacking what is basically public infrastructure. We should be publicly funding efforts to protect it.
I guess: maths, physics, engineering, anything that’s not Sociology or Economics?
OTOH, an interesting point is that the Manhattan project cost 0.4% of GDP in 1940, and Apple buyback ($110B) is 0.4% of 2023 GDP ($27T).
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I'm in Vegas right now, and while I've been here a bunch of times just realizing how protected pedestrians are on the Strip...every sidewalk is basically lined with thick concrete blocks with no spacing and bollards everywhere.

Which makes sense...you have thousands of drunk pedestrians and lots of cars on a busy/giant two way street with potential drunk drivers as well.
Discussion [0] (229 points, 15 hours ago, 229 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40263289
They also mentioned a lack of distractions, allowing them to grow their attention and focus. I'm pretty sure all of those will affect one's memory.

Sometimes the wonders of modern computers are as much of a trap as they are beneficial. It was far easier to separate yourself from distractions when the tools were not a source of distraction in their own right. If the television was a distraction, you simply turned it off or went to another room. You can't simply turn off a computer or walk away from a computer when the task you are trying to complete is on a computer. It also helped that computers weren't quite the communications and entertainment devices that they are today. That is especially true of personal computers until the early 90's, where one had to quit a task, rather than momentarily switch away from it, to do something else.

If you have that attention or focus, modern computers are absolutely amazing productivity tools. If you don't, it is an uphill battle to stay on task. Older computers may not be nearly as amazing as productivity tools, but at least you didn't have to face that battle.
The only solution is to ban participation in any organizations of any sort before one attends college.
It is unsurprising that a system trained on human-generated content might end up encoding implicit bias, toxicity, and negative goals. And the more powerful and general-purpose a system is, the more suitable it is for a wide range of powerfully negative purposes.

Neither specializing the model nor filtering its output seems to have worked reliably in practice.
That's from the SCP Wiki's Antimemetics Division Hub, right? https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub If so, I wholly recommend diving in. It's a super fun read.
Thanks. I use 'rg' a lot but it finds part of the json text, not sure how 'jq' can be used with that since you're not finding a full json object in general
no, no rendering code is shown. The code is calling into some class called Ball whuch itself is using a library. if you're going to rely on a library then there are plenty of js libraries that will abstract to few lines or you could even use canvas 2d
When you want to control the narrative. Block out any independent journalists. Use your leveraged/blackmailed journalists or state news to push propaganda.

The amount of blood the current Israeli government is willing to shed is just creating future generations of terrorists. Hamas may eventually get rooted. But only at significant cost of civilian life. The Israeli-Palestinian war will never end. Violence begets violence.
Is it a good idea to allow governments the power to silence journalists so completely?

I’d love to hear some perspective other than rabid politics.
Let me help you. Searching is difficult.
Examples are in English, to avoid any "lost in translation" issues.

Here's Al-Jazeera echoing completely made up rape accusations. Why were the accusations retracted? https://honestreporting.com/damage-done-how-al-jazeeras-fake...

Here's the (English) report on the Israeli strike (that wasn't) that (didn't) kill 500 in Al-Ahli hospital - a widely quoted and echoed further lie https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2023/10/17/photos-an-israe...

I can go on but I think it's better you continue the search.

[EDIT: fixed typo in hospital name]
Yeah, but I will say we tend to pay more attention now. We warn radiography folks that all may not be as expected, so they join us in playing, "What's weird about this skeleton?"
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Wait, why are there so few dead bugs on my windshield these days?
Discussion [0](52 points, 2 days ago, 91 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40250672
https://library.bz/main/uploads/44A02AC27BD3A657A14068A71FA3...
> “feels a little bit like people making anti-theft pledges”

Slate Star Codex covered this so well on https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/06/21/against-murderism/
>I’m pretty sure everyone realizes bollards saves lives [...] Will constituents support it?

and this is, i think, the whole point. we're not stupid. we all know that bollards save pedestrian lives. for a relatively low cost. and we as a society have just decided nah, we're not gonna do that. it is, as you say "an easy cut". and some of us feel it should not be that way.
I think the Czechs are also doing the whole triangular thing, but they don't have the financial muscle of the US.
Not everything needs to be at “scale”. I’ve deployed this pattern over 10k req/sec but it’s all about your SLOs. I’ve (thankfully) never needed to lose sleep over a millisecond or 2 in my line of work.
The US has required an "immigrant class" since before and after slavery ended. People forget that we didn't like the Germans, Irish, Italians, Polish, etc

At one point in the South there were jobs only Irish were hired to do bc they were very dangerous and slaves were too valuable to expend on that labor.

Immigrants are necessary for our economy and have been since the beginning. This isn't a great truth but it's the truth.
> Being against the Al-Sauds means being against Islam (according to the Saudi government)

Pretty much every of the hundreds of millions of muslims who live outside Saudi Arabia (and probably a large number of those who live inside it) laugh at that, and despise the Saudi regime. If you do not believe me, try talking to some and asking them.
>On the other hand, this is the textbook example of a Motte-and-bailey fallacy, where the debater conflates two topics and then retreats to the safer position while hoping that the audience will accept it as an argument for the more difficult position.

Motte and bailey accusations only work if the statemnts in question are being made by the same person. For the debater in the post above at least, is there any evidence he personally is engaging in this? Or anyone else? Otherwise it's a bit fallacious to lump everyone who's pro DEI as one entity.
We’re also still paying for the enrichment done in the 40s. There are dumps of radioactive material all over the country that were never properly disposed of. Those costs have been externalized on the populations living near those dumps for 80 years now.
> He and his orbiters have done real an irreparable harm to the Internet

He and his orbiters have done real an irreparable harm to the ecosystem by pushing such intense compute systems unthinkingly.
Is artificial intelligence the great filter that makes civilisations rare?
> GCC stagnated before llvm/clang becomes noticeable player.

Became?

Recently, it seems like LLVM's libc++ has stagnated, and clang is basically just copying GCC. If GCC stagnated before, it's nice competition seems to've rekindled its fire. :p

> monopoly is not praised, but rather considered bad.

Because economic monopolies are not self-competitive like organisms are and use their market capture to extract more value, unlike CMake or Linux (probably).

> There are myriad of Linux distributives. Is it bad, as they compete each other?

In that the labor required to make and maintain a good distribution is divided among them, it can be considered bad. In that users have to choose between an array of similar things, it's also bad for them. (If the things are very different, the choice becomes clearer, but then we move away from competition and toward complementing in the ecosystem sense.)